Vicente Padilla matched the seven innings that John Ely pulled off the day before (Padilla went 7.0 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 5 Ks), giving our overworked bullpen a bit of rest. Rafael Furcal (4-for-5) busted out a three-run HR in the fifth, and Kemp (making his first start in four games) went 3-for-4 with a solo shot of his own. Jamey Carroll went 2-for-2 with 2 BB and 3 R.

On the negative side (if there is a negative side of pounding your archrivals in the coda of a three-game sweep), Garret Anderson went 0-for-5 with four, count 'em, FOUR strikeouts, dropping his batting average to a putrid .180. Oh, and George Sherrill entered in the ninth with a seven-run lead and gave up hits to two of his three batters faced, elevating his ERA to 6.98, and needing Justin Miller for the rescue. Anytime you want to pull the ripcord on Anderson or Sherrill, Joe, be my guest.

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I think the best possible situation would be to somehow get Breezy 2 or 3 good outings in a row near the trading deadline so we could deal him. I like Breez and hope he does well, but he's just no good right now. He's like Mota was early last season, where it was a virtual guarantee he was going to give up runs every time. Can we put Brad Ausmus on the case?

I sure wish they'd put those Forever Young commercials on again like when they ran them so much leading up to last year's All Star Game. I rarely like or enjoy commercials (exception: MSB) but I loved these. Mainly b/c of Jackie stealing 2nd.

Dudes (and various ladies),Still packing. . .and having a few on a warm summer night. I'll try to check in on the GT's in the coming weeks.

As for Phillipe, took rbnlaw II and III after dropping Grandma rbn, Aunt rbn, and rbnlawIV off at Union Station. They're taking the train to SA and we'll meet them there. My brother lives there. All were impressed by the whole scene at Phillipe. The sandwiches rocked out loud and made the ride home tollerable.

As I said before, I'll be visiting Shiner, TX while I'm there. I'll try to post some pics via tweetpix.

This has to be the most unexpected road sweep of the jints. Second only to their stadium opener. Kevin Elster had three homeruns in the first game. Kevin Elster!! That would be like GA getting two doubles in a game.

"There's way too much agreement over at TBLAI think all the comments are written by the same guy. Also, treating the whole Rowand-Padilla thing as an overreaction by the Giants fans really underscores how delusional we all are in LA."